Cool! The probability of finding a quintuple star is some parts per million

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I think systems with 5-8 stars are common near black holes on galaxy centers. Check'em out

No, the probability of "multiplicating" of a star is not dependent on its position in the galaxy. The central black hole system is a special case - I try to simulate the stars motion near a black hole, simply by creating a special "solar system" for it. By the way, I have bad news for you guys: in the next release these quintuple star will disappear, because I've made some changes in the galaxy generation algorithms (fixed bugs with "cubic galaxies" etc).

When I finish the main tweaks in generator, I will introduce procedural galaxy generator and make network database. I'll make a system of versions to prevent "destroying" of planets/stars/galaxies recently found by players.

When a player discovers a new system, the server saves its ID and the current procedural generator version number. Further releases may change something in the generator, but the old generators will still be saved in the program code too. Then when other players enter the system previously discovered by the first player, the server will send this information to the client with the generator's version number for that discovered system. So that system will be generated in exactly the same way as when it was first discovered.

You might have to go "out of galaxy" to find a quin+ system with a habitable world in a future version, but it should be possible. Try heading out of the galactic plane a bit and messing around with star magnitude. Blue stars should pop out, but large multiples or behemoth reds also light up nice at a distance.